African identities : race, nation and culture in ethnography, pan-Africanism, and Black literatures / Kadiatu Kanneh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kanneh, Kadiatu, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Black people in literature.

Women, Black, in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--Black authors--History and criticism.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--In literature.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by: * Toni Morrison * Alice Walker * Gloria Naylor * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; The meaning of Africa: texts and histories; 'Coming home': Pan-Africanisms and national identities; Remembered landscapes: African-American appropriations of Africa; Crossing borders: race, sexuality and the body; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.193-199) and index.

ISBN:

0-7546-1947-8

1-134-71179-4

1-134-71180-8

0-203-15848-2

1-280-33488-6

0-203-00539-2

9780203005392

OCLC:

56994029